Russian Propaganda

[August1991]

This month's "The Atlantic" has a little essay of interest by Washington-based journalist Joshua Kucera. He tells of a few encounters he had with a Russian Embassy "official" who offered him a few hundred dollars every now and again to publish stories about "what we are doing in the Russian government."

And it wasn't even one of those spooky Deep Throat situations -- no 3 a.m. parking garages, no surreptitious notes stuck between the pages of "The New York Times." All Kucera had to do in order to find out "what we are doing in the Russian government" (and now The Power Vertical readers will also know the secret!) was to check out two websites that, to be honest, I'd never heard of before. Kucera's Russian friend, whom he calls "Vladimir," said he'd pay Kucera to take stories off those sites and republish them as his own.

And where do you go to find out what is going on in the Russian government? Here and here. The first is russianpeacekeeper.com (motto: Where we are, there is peace.), which publishes essays on themes like how the CIA is funding international terrorists and how Georgia is to blame for the war in South Ossetia and Abkhazia this summer.

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The other website is inforos.com, which doesn't seem to be updated as often as the peacekeepers, but covers many of the same themes -- Ukraine, Georgia, various U.S. machinations around the world.

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This is so Russian but I must admire the way some posters have managed to make some money from this forum.

[GostHacked]

CIA is not the shining star you think it is. MKULTRA baby. Who knows what else the CIA has done.

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/epis...s-3313/Overview

Propaganda happens on both sides of the pond. Russia just seems to be more open about it.